Thankfulness opens the door and ushers in peace and joy like a blessed breeze on a hot and humid Louisiana summer day.

When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.